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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 40, 17 September 1889, Page 3

Frisco Mail Items

-JPEit TTNIIBD PRESS ASSOCIATION. I Acckland.. September 14. Arrived-r-Manpoa, from Saa Piunciseo. Slavin, the Australian heavy weight deposited £ 1 00 oa August 1 2th with the Sporting Life, London, together with a challenge to John L. Sullivan. Slavin means to fight for £1000 and the world championship, under the London prize ring rules. Edison, the electrician, is being honoured in Europe. On the 13th August the Queen despatched Colonel Gourand to Paris to present the inventor's phonograph, iuto which she had spoken, warmly congratulating him.'. King Humbert of Italy has appointed tho distinguished American _ a Grand Officer of the Order of the Crown of Italy. Great destructions of property is reported from County Clare, Ireland. Floods swept away hundreds of acres of farming land, and nearly all the growing crops were *wept away to sea. The loas will reach' an enormous sum. ,i. Mr Balfour's Prison Bill passed the Commons on August 25th, after a heated debate, by a vote of 113 to 69. Fierce 'attacks were made on the Secretary for Ireland by Messrs Sexton, Parnell, and Blanc. A disastrous tornado visited Southern Eliingary on July 28th. For twenty-one miles along the Danube, many houses and churches, a ferryboat at Pesth, and a circus at Iziged, all crowded with human beings, were swept away. Hundreds were drowned, and the bodies lay strewn in every ■direction. The path of the tornado • presented an awful scene of <le olation ; j it was nearly half a n>ile wide, in i which the dead and dying people were embedded in wreckage. The course of the disturbance is several thousand .miles. Many bodies of men woman, and children, and cattle, were recovered from the Danube and other -rivers. Several fine churches were ruined. The Queen is suffering from sciatica, which causes great pain aud prevents sleep. - The Prince of Wales is also suffering much from his leg. Since he left Cowes the veins, which have never resumed their normal siz9 since vhe had typhoid fever, swell and cause great pain from time to time. Lately •the swelling has been very bad, and ihiß leg ha 6 reached an enormous size. On August 2nd an American Association paid M.P. Rouet 580,650 irancs for Millet's picture, " The Angelus," bought at Secreton sale. Despatches from Lucerne of August 2 1st says -that a syndicate of German bankers, which has been quietly buying up certain railroad interests, proposes 'iio piece. l the - Simplon. They have accepted a scheme for a tunnel •at the; base of the mountain with its southern mouth in Italy, and that country will contribute 15,000,000 irancs, and there is little doubt the ■Swiss .Government will now accept this proposal. The. plan is off great importance to Germany and Italy, both commercially, aud strategetically. iFrance, Switzerland, and the Simplon galley will be thrown open to the detriment of French commerce, and, in case .of war, .Italy and Germany would be enabled to bring troops directly to the French-Swisa Frontier, which -is almost entirely unfortified. The Natiunal Bank of Milan, and the Savings Bank of Naples, ad r auced on August 19th 24,010,000 lire, to two Turin Banks, to arrest a panic, caused i»y thejsuicide of Signpr Copello, one of the leading baukers of the city last named. ; :. During a public concert at Borne on the 19th August a bomb was exploded near the Austrian Embassy, aud eight persons were iv jured. A' railroad is excursion -train was ■wrecked on the Knoxville, on -August 22nd, by ; which three of the leading* citizens of Knoxville were killed and fourteen badly injured. The excursionists embraced the chief business and professional men of the city. Captaiii" Charles Trojers, 39 yaars old, a jewellerby trade, but who had Ibeen a sailor, the idea of sailing across ;the Atlantic, from Boston to Paris, in a 'dingey 14ft long, by sft wide, and drawing 22 inches. He wanted to see the! Exbibiti<in, and mailed away alpne from Boston on July 3rd, he was brought back on the ;23rd by the schooner Martha A. Bradley, from- the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, in a most deplorable condition, blind, aud nearly insane. Herr , Lachniaoou, editor of the Xiondon Journal, 1 a weekly newspaper printed in Germany, e hot his wife and child on' August 19th, and then committed suicide^ ..-'..;. The action '6t the British Commons (says an Ottawa despatiji) in roting £60,000; for the -establishment of a mail service between Vancouver (B,O). and .Hongkong ris creating a stir in political -circle's' in, Canada The establishment of a line of steamers on this line is now almost an accomplished fact, and there is little doubt but that it will revolutionise British trade from Jndia. The service between Halifax, and Hongkong will be at in >- tervals of four-weeks, and the vessels ■' will call at Yokohama and Shanghai The contact runs from ten years. The Admiralty, clause: provides for the conveyance of troops and. supplies. At the Convent on of tie ALC.eut Order of FdrtMstersyvheld- at .Minneapolis during the week- ■ending' 17th August, it was resolved to declare the order in le--1 pendent of the parent . order in England. Everything is bustling in regard to the Nicaragua Canal project. The plan of the company to attack the Isthmus from the two sides at once, and intide of two -years. Lake Nicaragua, draining: a ■watershed .of 8000 square toi^os, wll t;e thrown open to the arprU 1 . Iv about 2 J years more, or in 1894:5, th© whole canal will be ready for bu-duess. An anhpymou? wrifcr eucl- s^d. ten £1000 notes ,iii .aiiletter to ihe.Prince of Wales denouncing the oppo ltiou to the Eoval Grants Bill. Germane, to this, it is alto mentioned, tfcat the Queen. has ftDpomtoA % private cpmmifsi.n to ex ftuuue 1 • ho" eh Id and civil list expenditure and prepare a Bchejaa of reBlondm a wager of £4000 to walk oil' arable stretched f rom the top «f the Eif^ ; *oweft^ /thj^dsme -..0f the Jnain Exhibiftoj^mldiiigß(^n; less.thas